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Animal and Plant Health Package: Smarter rules for safer food
The European Commission has adopted on Monday 6 May 2013 a package of measures to strengthen the enforcement of health and safety standards for the whole agri-food chain.
The package of measures provide a modernised and simplified, more risked-based approach to the protection of health and more efficient control tools to ensure the effective application of the rules guiding the operation of the food chain.
The current body of EU legislation covering the food chain consists of almost 70 pieces of legislation. The package of reform will cut this down to 5 pieces of legislation and will also reduce the red-tape on processes and procedures for farmers, breeders and food business operators (producers, processors and distributors) to make it easier for them to carry out their profession.
Businesses will benefit from simpler, science and risk-based rules in terms of reduced administrative burden, more efficient processes and measures to finance and strengthen the control and eradication of animal diseases and plant pests. Consumers will benefit from safer products and a more effective and more transparent system of controls along the chain.
Official controls
- The Commission recognised the need to strengthen the instruments available to the competent authorities in the Member States to check compliance with EU legislation on the ground (through controls, inspections and tests).
- Recent food scandals have shown once more the need for more effective action on the part of enforcement authorities to protect consumers and honest operators alike from the risks (also in economic terms) which may arise from breaches of the rules along the chain.
- The new rules follow a more risk based approach thus allowing competent authorities to focus their resources on the more relevant issues.
- The current system of fees to finance the effective implementation of these controls within a sustainable system along the whole chain will be extended to other sectors within the chain which are currently not charged.
- Microenterprises will be exempted from such fees, but not from controls, in order not to affect their competitiveness.
- Member States will also be asked to fully integrate anti-fraud checks into their national control plans and to ensure that financial penalties in these cases are set at truly dissuasive amounts.
Animal health
- The package will introduce a single piece of legislation to regulate animal health in the EU based on the principle that "prevention is better than cure".
- It aims to improve standards and to provide a common system to better detect and control disease and tackle health, food and feed safety risks in a coordinated way.
- This enhanced system, allied with better rules on identification and registration, will give those working to protect our food chain, such as farmers and veterinarians, the capability to react quickly and to limit spread of disease and minimise its impact on livestock, and on consumers.
- Furthermore, it introduces categorization/prioritisation of diseases, which require intervention at EU level. As such, it enables a more risk based approach and appropriate use of resources
- Sufficient flexibility is provided to adjust the animal health measures to different sizes and types of establishments (e.g. Small and medium enterprises, hobby holding, etc.) to different local circumstances in particular with respect to registration and approval requirements for establishments and the keeping animals and products.
- On a broader scale the law needs to be flexible and robust enough to provide for the effective response of the whole EU in the event of important climate changes thus giving us the tools to deal with new and unknown emerging risks so that we can adjust quickly to new scientific developments and international standards.
Plant health
- The value of crops grown in the EU is 205 billion annually. Without the protection afforded by plant health rules this sector would suffer severe economic damage.
- Europe's agriculture, forests and natural heritage are being threatened by pests and diseases that attack plants. The introduction of new pest species has increased as a result of the globalisation of trade and climate change.
- To prevent new pests from establishing in the EU and to protect plant growers as well as the forestry sector, the Commission proposes to upgrade the existing plant health regime
- More focus will be placed on high risk trade coming from third countries and increased traceability of planting material on the internal market
- The legislation also introduces better surveillance and early eradication of outbreaks of new pest species and financial compensation for growers hit by such quarantine pests.
Plant reproductive material (including seeds)
- 60% of the world export value in seeds originates from the EU.
- The package provides more simplified and flexible rules for the marketing of seeds and other plant reproductive material with the aim to ensure productivity, adaptability and diversity of Europe's crop production and forests and to facilitate their trading.
- The broad choice of material and the improved testing requirements will contribute to protection of biodiversity and to breeding oriented towards sustainable agriculture.
- The use of seed in private gardens is not covered by the EU legislation and private gardeners can continue to buy any plant material and sell their seed in small quantities Moreover, it will be clarified that any non-professional (e.g. private gardeners) can exchange seed with other private gardeners without falling under the rules of the proposed Regulation.
- The aim of the legislation is to introduce a broader choice for the users thus including new improved and tested varieties, material not fulfilling the variety definition (heterogeneous material), traditional varieties and niche market material.
- However the new rules, in line with the Commission's better regulation agenda, take into account the type of material, production conditions and the size of the business involved. Thus for old traditional varieties and for heterogeneous material, there are only light registration rules. Such categories are exempted from the testing and other requirements of the legislation.
- In addition, administrative burden is reduced for micro-enterprises who can market any type of material as 'niche market material' without registration.
- Furthermore, micro-enterprises are generally exempted from registration fees
Common Financial Framework
A Common Financial Framework to manage expenditure and establishing a single, modern and simple framework has been adopted on 7.6.2013 It aims at modernising the existing financial provisions in order to improve the functioning of a number of sectorial instruments and programmes implemented within this area and providing real added value to EU funding priorities:
- underpins the implementation of the EU-funded measures;
- ensures that this action is cost-effective;
- avoids unnecessary administrative burden on Member States.
Other EU institutions, including the European Parliament and the Council will consider the Commission's package of measures and will adopt their positions in due course. At this stage, it can be estimated that the package will enter into force in 2016.
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Midday statement by Tonio BORG, Member of the EC in charge of Health and Consumer Policy

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Terry Richardson shot a pantsless Lena Dunham for V. The second season of Girls premieres on January 13. [V]
Meanwhile, the Times thinks the show "authentically" represents how young, post-college women working in cultural industries in New York City dress:
Where "Sex and the City" created a high-end designer-driven fantasy, "Girls" strives above all else for authenticity. "We were really concerned about realism, verisimilitude," Ms. Dunham said, adding that Jenni Konner, an executive producer, "is always there at my costume fittings to say, 'That fits a little too well.' "
"She's always calling out the potential for any TV-matchy-cutesy-ness," Ms. Dunham said.
Key to this ethos, Ms. Konner said, is "never having things that are beyond what these girls can afford." The show's most polished looks come from designers like Theory and Tibi, and the decidedly un-Carrie Bradshaw Ann Taylor. Characters also wear some clothes repeatedly.
- Sales during the month of December were surprisingly slow for most retailers. Although Macy's and Gap Inc. managed to post positive results — same-store year-on-year sales increases of 4.1% and 5%, respectively — many other major retailers saw disappointing results in the crucial holiday period. Target, for example, had flat sales and Wet Seal's same-store sales were down by 9.7%. [WWD]
- Speaking of Target, its two-way collaboration with Neiman Marcus and designers from the Council of Fashion Designers of America was kind of a bust. (You can now find much of the collection of apparel and homewares — oh happy day — on clearance.) The main reason was simple: it was just too expensive. $100 for a girl's dress, $80 for a serving platter, $500 for a bicycle — that's just too much money for most of us. [Time]
- Gap Inc. just acquired Intermix, the 32-unit boutique chain, for $130 million. [WWD]
- Valentino celebrated New Year's at his chalet in Gstaad, but he played Madonna music so loud and so late that the neighbors complained and the police got involved. Our only question, and it is an important one, is which album? [P6]
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We really enjoyed the trip to Sintra. The palace is beautiful, and it was only a short trip from Lisbon. We really enjoyed our guide. I would recommend that Sintra be included in everyone's trip to Lisbon!
Doing what: Sintra Day Trip from Lisbon
Excelente Tour, nuestro guia Juan estuvo excelente, eramos 7 personas y los lugares que visitamos todos valen mucho la pena, en especial el Palacio de Sintra y Cabo Roca. Si tienes 1 dia libre en Lisboa no dudes en tomar este tour, no te arrepentirás! Felicidades a Juan, excelente guia!
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
Very good tour that enables to see some highlights of Portugal. The guide was very knowledgeable and nice. We took some time on our own from the lunch break to visit the Sintra palace which we really enjoyed and made the tour culturally richer
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
Took this all-day small-group tour to Sintra and Cascais. You meet in front of the Hard Rock Café which is the central meeting/starting point for all the small-group tours operated by Inside Lisbon Travel Agency. So you wait there and the vans arrive and the driver calls out your name amongst the crowd, so you know which driver will be handling your tour group. The driver is the tour guide in this case and our group was only 8 people, which is great. Sintra is a beautiful city, and the Pena Palace is a castle up on the hill. Full of history, with a location that is hard to beat ocean views. You can take the small shuttle that takes you from the parking entrance to the Pena Palace entrance for 3 euros r/t, or walk up the hills about 15 minutes. Our guide was very informative on the Palace. We then went to Cabo de Roca which is the western most point of Europe, great views, photo opportunities galore. Then driving along the coast past Guincho Beach, along the Estoril, and Cascais. Cascais is a pretty cool beach town, not a lot of nice beaches though, mainly rocky with some small outcroppings of sand everyone is packed onto whatever sand they can find. We had some free time in Cascais for eating, shopping, hanging at the beach, or whatever you wanted to do. Then back to Lisbon. Our guide made the trip enjoyable along with several of our traveling companions. Overall, a great trip to the coast for the day. Would recommend to anyone.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
We were lucky to have Andrea is our tour guide. She is very knowledgeable, professional and sweet. Sintra was awesome. The architecture was super. We'd highly recommend this tour.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
Wonderful pictures places packed with history. The tour operator Inside Lisbon and the knowledgeable guide with the comfortable car was perfect combination. Take warm cloth for Sintra as well as extra cloth if you would like to get wet in the sea in Cascais. You get 1hr in Cascais. The places are around 30min by train but taking this tour helps you getting all the highlights so that you may plan your own trip later.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
This was a great way to see all three palaces. It took it on Sep. 3. We didn't feel rushed. I opted not to do the lunch, so I had plenty of time to walk around Sintra. Our guide, who spoke three languages, was very informative.
The Queluz Palace looks like a small version of Versailles. The Sintra Palace, which dates from medieval times, has quite a blend of architectural styles the 2 large cones are actually the kitchen vents. The Pena Palace has almost a fairy tale look. From one section of the Pena Palace, you can see the ruins of the Moorish castle which overlooks the town. You might want to bring a light jacket. It was quite windy at the Pena Palace.
Doing what: Small-Group Sintra Royal Palaces Day Trip from Lisbon: Pena Palace, Queluz Palace and Sintra Palace
wonderful day trip to beautiful Sintra to see The Pena Palace and gardens. The guide Andre was charming and knowledgeable. Drove in an air-conditioned mini van to Sintra and also to beautiful beach towns. Only 6 guests on tour.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
The tour was excellent. Sara was very knowledgeable not just about Sintra, but about many historical facts and places within the Lisbon area and friendly and made the trip well worth it. We would highly recommend the tour for those who only want to spend a half day trip outside of Lisbon.
Doing what: Private Tour to the Estoril Coast and Sintra - UNESCO World Heritage Site
We ended up doing 2 Day tours with a super saver bundle with Inside Lisbon:
Sintra and Cascais
Fatima, Nazare, and Obidos
The tours provide some incredible sites to see outside of Lisbon- though most are accessible via public transportation. However the small group tours made for a really good day out and allowed us to hit quite a few places in a single day with some stops for great views along the way.
We absolutely loved our Sintra and Cascais tour. The guide was incredible friendly and was capable of switching between English and Portugese for the different tourists he was showing around. He shared a lot of information and history on what we were seeing and doing during the day. He always offered to take photos at all the locations, and really went out of his way to ensure we were enjoying the trip. The sites were beyond incredible.
While we loved the sites of our second day Fatima, Nazare and Obidos we struggled with the guide from time to time. Though he was impressively trilingual there was little effort to translate between languages when he made explanations as to where we were. And there was at least once, after listening to him for 20 minutes going on in Spanish, where I had to ask him after we arrived where we were and what the history was, while we stood looking at the site and everyone else who had understood his earlier explanation were able to enter and wander around. Aside from some frustrations around communication we really enjoyed the day because the sites were simply incredible.
The cars were comfortable, clean and well maintained. It sat 8 comfortably though on both days we were a few people less than the 8 max for the trip.
Doing what: Lisbon Super Saver: 2-Day Sintra, Cascais, Fatima, Nazare and Obidos Small-Group Day Trips
This tour is well worth the time. You visit various sites and areas that are all lovely. Our guide was very energetic and informative. The Pena Palace has amazing views but is strangely Las Vegas like. Sintra is pretty and Cascais is as well. None really need a lot of time so this tour is fine for one day. You see a lot.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
The castle disappointed me. Views were great. I liked the town of Sintra and would have liked to stay longer. Cascais was a bit of a bore. Loved the ocean views. Joanna our guide was wonderful!
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
Well done. Everything was very seamless, easy, and enjoyable. Learned some great history while driving up to Sintra and walking through the palace. While the quick visit to Cascais is nice, it would be great to have had more time in Sintra town center instead magical little town it is
Doing what: Sintra, Pena Palace and Cascais Half-Day Trip from Lisbon
Pena Palace was beautiful. Not worth it to go inside though. The best photos are of the palace itself from each angle. We didn't get a chance to see too much of Sintra, because we went to the French restaurant in town. Super slow service and took forever to get our bill. But the town is very small, and apparently you could have seen it all in an hour.
Cabo de Roca was beautiful! Wish we could have spent another 15-20 minutes there to take pictures.
Cascais was a nice little town as well. The water was freezing - but worth a quick swim if you can manage our trip was in September.
Recommend this tour. Had a good time. My only complaint was that we were told to meet outside the Hard Rock Cafe. The tour guides were late. And then there were a bunch of different groups meeting there. Each guide came and then called out the names of the people in their group. We didn't get started until like half an hour later, if not more. Very poorly organized. But once we got started, our guide was great.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
I was under the impression that the tour was English only, the guide was great, but waiting for her to translate into 2 other languages, a little long. Lunch was just ok. Not interested in the last 2 stops would have wanted more time in Sintra. The driver and the guide were absolutely great!
Doing what: Sintra Day Trip from Lisbon
It was absolutely fabulous! Katrina was the best guide ever - so knowledgeable and passionate about her country and knew the best spots for photographs - an true gem! Sintra and Cascais exceeded my expectations in their outstanding beauty and it was hard to take a poor photograph!
I would highly recommend this tour and particularly this tour guide to anyone and everyone! Many many thanks!
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
The tour guide for Sintra and Cascais was really good, as were the tours.
Doing what: Best Lisbon Super Saver: 2-Day Lisbon Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastings, and Sintra and Cascais Day Trip
Visit to thee 3 castles in Sintra is a must. But keep in mind there are other two castles there, besides the fortified remains of the Mouros castle on top of the hill. Regaleira Palace is a jewel, with a beautiful garden.
Ricardo, our guide took us to a great family type Restaurant, where we had the best fish ever at good prices. Great guy, very knowledgeable, one can tell he loves his country.
We came back to see Regaleira with same company, Inside Lisbon. They did a great job at fair prices. Thanks Jose! Funny guy: Com carne de vaca não se morre de fome. LOL
Doing what: Small-Group Sintra Royal Palaces Day Trip from Lisbon: Pena Palace, Queluz Palace and Sintra Palace
This was a great tour and filled with wonderful sights to see. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Lisbon. It was a great sample of several sights to see right outside of Lisbon. Our tour guide was very nice and informative. The roads were quite curvy, especially near Sintra while visiting the castle, so I would recommend anyone that may get motion sickness to sit in the front and even bring your motion sickness pills just in case.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
This was an outstanding tour, full of beautiful grounds, palaces and castles. The lunch was very nice with plenty of good food and wine. Our guide gave us 45 minutes after lunch to walk to the nearby Quinta da Regaleira gardens. Every tour to Sintra should include these fantastic and inspiring grounds. The Initiation Well made the quick tour worth it, even if we had no time to tour the residence which also looked interesting from the outside.
Doing what: Small-Group Sintra Royal Palaces Day Trip from Lisbon: Pena Palace, Queluz Palace and Sintra Palace
We hadden het geluk om met Nadia te kunnen genieten van de daguitstap naar Sintra, Cascais en Coba da Roca. Het was een schitterende dag, vooral dankzij de persoonlijke benadering door onze uitstekende gidse, Nadia. Deze wist ons antwoord te geven op onze vragen. De tips waar we het beste uitzicht hadden waar volkomen correct. De balans tussen historische uitleg en vakantiesfeer was optimaal! Zeker een aanrader!
Doing what: Best Lisbon Super Saver: 2-Day Lisbon Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastings, and Sintra and Cascais Day Trip
This was a wonderful opportunity and tour to see beautiful Sintra and the palaces. We were amazed at our bus drivers driving on those windy roads so effortlessly. Lunch was wonderful and am so glad we included that in our tour. No complaints at all.
Doing what: Small-Group Sintra Royal Palaces Day Trip from Lisbon: Pena Palace, Queluz Palace and Sintra Palace
I totally enjoyed this tour and the stops we made besides Sintra and would definitely like to go back at my own pace the next time. The only thing I did not enjoy was the lunch! The venue and food was not up to par so best to book this trip with lunch excluded... Our guide Diana was excellent, very friendly and informative.
Doing what: Sintra Day Trip from Lisbon
A really, really, enjoyable day out, though perhaps a little cramped in the min-bus with all 8 of us plus the guide. Pena Palace was the obvious highlight simply stunning, perched on the mountaintop, surreal in its design and with such vivid colours. The weather helped: Clear clue skies and visibility such that you could see clear to the coast. Sintra provided a restful interlude, with time for lunch and an opportunity to wander the streets and sample a few of the local delicacies. Cabo da Roca was, if Im honest, a bit of an anti-climax. If youve seen high cliffs before, then these were nothing special, but a pleasant visit nonetheless a chance to stretch ones legs, and to watch those more stupid stray too close to the cliff edge than prudence would dictate! Follow the advice here and stay to the right i.e. safe side of the fence. Cascais was pretty, if somewhat busy. We took the tour on a Sunday, so with the weather, it seemed as if the whole of Lisbon was on the surrounding beaches! Understandable though! But with afternoon temperatures approaching 37C we took the sensible option and retired to a local bar for a cold beer and a spot of people-watching from air-conditioned comfort.
As I say, a great day out, and good value for money. We might perhaps have done a couple of the visits on our own, not part of an organised tour both Cascais and Sintra are readily accessible by train but certainly not all on one day. And if wed tried, wed have spent more time travelling, queuing, and with our heads in guide books, rather than taking in the views, and listening to the informative, if at times a little over-imaginative, narrative lots of stories of myth and magic.
In conclusion, Id certainly recommend this tour to others, especially for those without their own transport, or with only limited time.
Doing what: Sintra and Cascais Small-Group Day Trip from Lisbon
I love Sintra, very beautiful! Definitely should try walking through the park to the palace; guide Pedro was fantastic! Beaches and oceans (even the winds) were breath taking!
Doing what: Lisbon Super Saver: 2-Day Sintra, Cascais, Fatima, Nazare and Obidos Small-Group Day Trips
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BOSTON — In late May, Mery Daniel went back to Boylston Street.
Six weeks before, on April 15, she had joined the throng of spectators at the Boston Marathon. She'd treated herself to hot chocolate and a pancake at a cafe before heading alone to the finish line to cheer runners at the end of America's most famous race.
"This is where I was," she said, her wheelchair gliding to a stop outside the Marathon Sports store.
It was on this spot that everything changed — where twin pressure cooker bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others, including at least 16 people who lost a limb or limbs. It was on this spot where the world came to regard Daniel, a 31-year-old medical school graduate and Haitian immigrant, as a victim.
"God bless you," a young guitarist told Daniel outside Marathon Sports, before quickly taking his song somewhere else on the street.
Before the bombing, she had loved to roam and explore Boston, the city where she had become an American citizen five years earlier.
"Please save my legs," she had begged the doctors before blacking out in the operating room.
But they amputated her left leg above her knee before she woke up. It was the price she paid for her life. Her heart had stopped twice after she lost consciousness.
Daniel's wheelchair stood out when she returned to Boylston Street. Strangers saw her on the street, and a question flickered in some of their eyes: Was she one of the marathon bombing amputees?
She no longer could blend easily into a crowd, or go where she wanted when she wanted. But Daniel was determined to go forward without fear, and to see herself as a survivor, not a victim. To do that, she knew she would have to walk again.
Daniel heard the boom seconds after staking out a spot across from Boston Public Library's central branch.
Suddenly, she was on the ground, her lower left leg dangling by skin, its bone split open and arteries and nerves blown to bits. A pancreatic laceration left Daniel bleeding on the inside. Projectiles ravaged the rear of her right calf, and doctors had to cut away ruined muscles and tendons and graft skin from elsewhere on her body to repair what they could.
Daniel did not cry when she awoke from surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. And she did not cry on all the days after, even when she went back to Boylston Street.
The kind of determination she would show in the aftermath of the bombing was not new. She had emigrated from Haiti just before turning 17, graduating from Brockton High School before attending University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She headed to Europe for medical school after college, doing some traveling when she wasn't studying.
Before the marathon, the international medical graduate had been studying for the last part of her medical boards so she could qualify to work as a doctor in the United States. She'd been thinking about pursuing psychiatry as her specialty.
But now, she turned all that energy to her recovery.
After leaving Massachusetts General, Daniel spent about three weeks at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where she exercised for three hours a day.
But when the time came to leave, she couldn't go home. Before the marathon, Daniel had lived in a second-story apartment with her husband, Richardson, their 5-year-old daughter, and her husband's parents in Boston's Mattapan section. But the location wouldn't work with a wheelchair, forcing Daniel and her husband to move to a hotel near Spaulding for a while.
Without a permanent home, Daniel worked to transition from using a wheelchair to crutches, refusing to use a walker to smooth the way from one to the other. Going down stairs was especially tricky.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love and Death in Latin AmericaWe're approaching the first anniversary of the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the world's great writers. With his generous moustache and twinkling eyes, he was also a beloved figure, particularly within his native Colombia. From the time I read One Hundred Years of Solitude as an eager undergrad, I fantasized about meeting the great, Nobel-prizewinning man with the spellbinding words. Yet though Marquez is sadly gone, his literature lives on, fine-spun tales of Love and Death in Latin America. If you've never read Marquez, why not start with one of these four classics? 1. No One Writes to the Colonel/El coronel no tiene quien le escriba One of Marquez's early novellas, No One Writes to the Colonel is poetically tragic and, at least in Marquez terms, mostly realistic rather than magically realistic. The Colonel of the title is 75 years old, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, a bereaved father, the owner of one pair of shoes and his dead son's cockerel. Every day he goes to the dock to wait for the post to arrive by boat, hoping, as he has been doing for 15 years, that his pension will finally arrive. In the meantime, he and his sick wife have been living a life of dignified poverty, scraping together food to eat by selling off their worldly possessions. The only other thing giving meaning to his life is training the cockerel to fight. None of the characters is named, adding to the sense that the desperate situation of the colonel and his wife is not unique at the end of the war; it is...
Hollywood's Latin American FiestaFLying Down to Rio (1933) and Down Argentine Way (1940) In the 1930s and 40s, the USA in general, and Hollywood in particular, went gaga for all things south of the border. In 1933, Roosevelt launched the 'Good Neighbor' policy, in which he sought to improve the image of the US among Latin American countries. Since it proved somewhat difficult to reassure Latin American governments of his non-interventionist direction, having suffered repeated, heavy-handed military interventions from the US in the past, Roosevelt's Inter-American Office persuaded Hollywood's major production companies to demonstrate this new-found love for everything Latin American through cinema. So, over the next decade or so, a flurry of films was produced, using the power of song, dance, and Betty Grable's legs, to demonstrate friendship towards countries like Brazil and Argentina, and to show US audiences the positive side to Latin America. Looking at these films nowadays, it can be slightly cringe-inducing to see Carmen Miranda pop up as the token 'Latina', complete with fruit-basket headdress, because, Latin America is 'exotic' you know, or to listen to a Hollywood star mangling the Spanish language, because obviously, darling, we can't have some unknown from Argentina taking on a leading role. It doesn't seem to concern anyone exactly which bit of Latin America the film is about; hence Mexican Dolores Del Rio assumes a Brazilian role, while Brazilian Carmen Miranda is the showpiece of 'Argentine' culture. Still, there is a clear attempt to minimise the differences between Americans, US and Latin, at least within the upper echelons of society, and boy, are these film fun. Both Flying Down to Rio...
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You love National Cheese Lover's Day, and love it even more when you can celebrate with friends. A cheese plate shared with your favorite lunchtime peeps is a great way to break up the workday or end the night when you unwind at home.
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The agreement regarding the Iranian nuclear program, which has been reached at the Geneva negotiations with the P5+1 group, will help resolve that problem, Moscow believes.
"The joint action plan the Sextet and Iran adopted in Geneva on November 24, 2013 has fostered the settlement of one of the most complex problems in international political affairs - the Iranian nuclear program. The deal struck in Geneva lays down a solid foundation for further negotiations targeting a comprehensive solution," says a commentary of the Russian Foreign Ministry's information and press department posted on Wednesday.
"Same as before, Russia will continue doing everything in its power for the positive development of this process and the final settlement of the problem at the negotiating table," the ministry said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif will pay a working visit to Russia on January 16, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold negotiations with Zarif on the same day, the ministry said.
"Russia-Iran relations have been active lately. The political dialogue dynamics has grown, and economic contacts have intensified. We intend to continue the expansion of mutually advantageous relations with Iran and interaction in the interests of regional stability and international security. Our relations are based on the principles of friendship and neighborliness and are immune to political fluctuations. We expect to strengthen positive trends in every sphere of Russia-Iran cooperation," the ministry remarked.
In the opinion of Moscow, Russia and Iran "are capable of combining their sizable potentials, which may be used efficiently for the development of both countries."
"In addition, interaction between the two countries can have a positive influence on the general situation in the Middle and Near East and create additional conditions for [regional] stability," the commentary runs.
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After four months of buying parts my steelhead build is almost finished! I stole the fork off my Klein (fox float 100rl) till I can afford a pike. Once my dumbass friend finds my bottom bracket that got shipped to his house I can ride it! I know you all probably have nicer bikes or whatever but after a whole summer spent looking at parts I now have a bike that I can nearly ride...
There was one major annoyance if you all remember and two duplicate purchases due to a change of mind, but the current specs are...
Frame - Azonic steelhead '05
Fork - Fox float 100rl (temporary)
Wheelset - Azonic outlaws
Tires - Hookworms
Brakes - Hayes mags, 8" rotors
Grips - ODI rogues
Headset - FSA pig dh pro
Stem - raceface evolve DH 31.8mm
Bars - Raceface diabolus
Seat - Azonic hot seat
Crankset - Raceface evolve DH w/ single ring (mono veloce 34t)
BB - Truvativ gigapipe team DH
Pedals - Sun ringle zuzus
Cassette - SRAM PG970
Shifter & Derailleur (rear only) - SRAM X7
Ok so now what I'm dying to know...how much would you guys pay for this build? I know I know, I'll get 50 responses about why you wouldn't do this or that a certain way, but if you bought this bike...how much? I ask because I feel really stupid about going over budget so much (bought used brakes and decided I wanted new ones, so that cost me $50 even after I sold them again ). Maybe it's not so bad, I figure it'd be hard to find these components on a complete bike for the same price. Anyways enough talking, I'm just really excited that I get to ride it soon. Here are a couple pics I just took:

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Hear from our writers-in-residence and youth writers during our reading at Lit Crawl, an annual evening of literary events on Saturday, October 17th. Teens welcome!
WHAT: Young & Made: WritersCorps Youth & Teaching Artists
WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, October 17, 2015, 7:15-8:15 p.m. (Phase Two)
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Maddy Clifford writes and performs across the genres of page poetry, spoken word, and rap. She has performed on the historic Apollo Theatre stage.
Sandra García Rivera is the author of two chapbooks. She curates and hosts the monthly bilingual literary series Lunada at Galería de la Raza.
Roseli Ilano is an educator and cultural worker who integrates creative writing, storytelling, and arts into youth programming.
Annie Rovzar holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco and is passionate about work that connects creative writing and social good.
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A Windsor man who kicked and punched his live-in girlfriend until her face resembled something out of a horror movie pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault.
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When a Brampton trucker loaded box after box of dried poppy heads into the back of his big rig, little did he know he would have the dubious honour of blazing a trail through Windsor's court system. Anoop Kumar Ubbu, 35, was sentenced Friday to 20 months in jail after being caught smuggling 432 kilograms of doda worth $864,000 over the Ambassador Bridge. Until Ubbu was caught in June 2010, the drug had never before been intercepted by border guards here.


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E3 is always a time of excitement--almost like a gamer's Christmas. Each year, my excitement has risen to unprecedented levels, but sometimes that temporary high sinks faster than I can beat my grandmother in Battleship. Last year's E3 was one of those years. Games like Wii Music made a mockery of what gaming is about (okay, it's not as bad as the Spike TV awards, but it's close), and very few exciting games were announced.
This year, we actually received quite a few surprises, but the problem is--most of those are sequels. The majority of the Xbox360 sequels announced yesterday didn't surprise me, but several games today did: Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Metroid: Other M, Golden Sun DS, and most surprising of all was Final Fantasy XIV. There was always a slight possibility that Mario Galaxy would receive a sequel--I believe IGN announced it as a rumor some time ago, but I never expected Nintendo to actually go through with it. Nintendo does milk Mario, but typically, the main games in his series are original titles. We haven't really received sequential Mario games since Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES. You could say that Super Mario World had a numbered sequel, but to me, Yoshi's Island is an entirely different game. Basically, after the NES era, Nintendo only produced one main Mario title per system (RPGs excluded).
Normally, I'd be disappointed that Nintendo is releasing another Mario sequel so soon, but with all their focus on casual games as of late, first-party games from the Big N are slim pickings. I'd accept a sequel to almost any Nintendo franchise right now--Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin, Metroid (well actually, enough Metroid Prime), just as long as it's not another Wii Music or Animal Crossing rehash. I expected to see a new Pikmin or Zelda, but instead, I experienced a deluge of Mario footage. Mario Galaxy retains its title as my favorite Wii game two years later, so I was excited to see a sequel. I'm not that enthused about Yoshi being back, but the courses look as imaginative as ever. Sure, Mario Galaxy 2's graphics haven't really changed from the original, but when they're better than the visuals of 99.9% of the other Wii games out there, who's complaining?
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is another Mario sequel, but the original sold over 13 million copies, so I don't expect to see any major outbursts. I'm glad that Nintendo finally implemented cooperative gameplay in a Mario game without adding the ridiculous connectivity of games like The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords. If Little Big Planet is anything to go by, there could be some problems having four players on difficult platforming segments, but it should be a blast for the most part. The graphics look fairly rudimentary, so there shouldn't be any graphical slowdown or other technical problems, and I doubt lag will be an issue, since Nintendo is unlikely to include online play. I'm excited to see how this game will turn out.
The two games that surprised me the most at Nintendo's press conference, however, were Metroid: Other M and Golden Sun DS. I loved the Metroid Prime games, but they were beginning to grow stale, so it was a wise move on Nintendo's part to partner with Team Ninja to reinvigorate the franchise. Metroid: Other M looks to be an action game like Ninja Gaiden, but hopefully it won't feature that series legendary difficulty. I'm also a bit worried that the game won't feel like Metroid, but Metroid Prime surpassed my expectations, so maybe this will too. As for Golden Sun, that game has me really excited. I only experienced a few hours of the first Golden Sun, but I loved what I played. The game felt similar to Lufia and Wild Arms, and really had an old-school vibe. Everything from the music to the puzzle-based dungeons felt fresh on a portable system. The 3D graphics of the new Golden Sun look a bit ugly, but I'm sure the gameplay will be great.
What I found most surprising today, however, was the announcement of FFXIV. When I first heard the "fourteen" come out of Jack's mouth, I thought he made a mistake, but sure enough, Square-Enix plans on releasing a new online Final Fantasy in 2010. Who knows if it'll stay exclusive to PS3, but it was a surprise nonetheless. We all know how exclusivity went with the last FF (that isn't even out yet), so it wouldn't surprise me if FFXIV was also released for PC and maybe even 360. FFXIV's graphics looked impressive, but it's unlikely that any of that was in-game footage. Frankly, I'm not that excited yet, because the FF series has disappointed me ever since the Square-Enix merger and I'm still waiting on FFXIII, but it's still an exciting development nonetheless.
I'm surprised that Square-Enix made another online game part of the FF series proper. FFXI alienated the majority of the FF fan-base, so it seems foolish to repeat the same mistake. Oh well, I guess the revenue from MMORPGs must make up for it. I'd like to see an improved PvP system and an involving story, rather than another Everquest clone, but chances are that Square-Enix will ignore my pleas once again. I was eagerly anticipating FFXI three years prior to its release and was letdown when I realized it was simply an Everquest clone combined with the FFIII/FFV/FFT job system. I'd love to see an MMO where you could purchase castles and airships with a clan and engage in battles over contested territory--an MMO where you can actually influence the fate of the world. I'm sure it'd be difficult to balance the gameplay in a title like this, but it's something that might get people like me who don't normally play MMORPGs interested.
Despite the rampant sequelitus, this year's E3 has so far been a significant improvement over the previous year. I'm glad that Nintendo is still making hardcore games and it's good to see that plenty of third-parties have hidden aces under their sleeve. I'm hoping that I'll bear witness to even more surprises tomorrow.


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Friday, October 23, 2015
We begin our journey for the day by departing from Chester Center at 8:30 a.m. (Parking available near the old Pizza Hut building) Additional pick up available at our Evansville and Red Bud (1320 W Market) locations.
First, we will visit the Butterfly House located in Chesterfield, MO which features the OWL butterfly in addition to 80 species and nearly 2,000 free flying tropical butterflies. Our visit will last about 1 hour so be sure to take time to enjoy the 17 minute original film The Butterfly Effect. Don't miss the Butterflies of the World exhibit and visit the Madame Butterfly gift shop. We will take a group photo in front of the 28 foot Mysterious Monarch located outside.
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This place (Panchganga Ghat) is one of the only locations remaining where I found this orange light and shadow. Banaras ghats have changed and LED white lights have been installed on each ghat. Economical and energy efficient but there is no more shadow play on the steps… and the boats parked, now seem like […]
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May 22nd, 2015 – Student Ethnographic Film Festival, Zadar – Croatia | Screening of 'Vivah Samskara'
April 2nd, 2015 – 4th Banaras Film Festival, Varanasi – India | Screening of 'Jakari'
March 18th, 2015 – Centre for Women's Studies & Development, Banaras Hindu University | Screening of 'Jakari'
January 22nd, 2015 – Café Couleur, Die Brücke – International Centre, Münster University, Germany | Screening of 'Vivah Samskara'
November 27th, 2014 – The Institute of Musicology, Münster University, Germany | Screening of 'Vivah Samskara'
September 21, 2014 – International Seminar on Indian Feminism in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh | Screening of 'Vivah Samskara'
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Edward McKnight Kauffer
1 of 2 portraits by Maxwell Ashby Armfield
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Edward McKnight Kauffer
by Maxwell Ashby Armfield
pencil, 1915
8 1/4 in. x 7 7/8 in. (210 mm x 200 mm) uneven
Purchased, 1973
Primary Collection
NPG 4947a
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text: SDN Members don't see this ad. (About Ads) Here is the long-overdue subspecialty FAQ. Feel free to PM me with anything you might want to add, correct, or clarify. What are the internal medicine subspecialties? There are presently 15 subspecialties that are certifiable by the American Board of Medical Specialists. Internists can begin fellowships after completing their 3 year internal medicine residency. Most residents apply for fellowship programs during the beginning of their second year of residency. Fellowships include: Specialty: Overall Length of Fellowship Training 3 years of internal medicine training +: Allergy and Immunology: 2 years Cardiology: 3 years Cardiology/Cardiac Electrophysiology: 4 years Cardiology/Interventional Cardiology: 4 years Critical Care Medicine: 2 years Endocrinology: 2 years Geriatric Medicine: 2 years Gastroenterology: 3 years Gastroenterology/Hepatology: 4 years Hematology: 2 years Hematology/Oncology: 3 years Infectious Diseases: 2 years Medical Genetics: 2-4 years Nephrology: 2 years Oncology: 2 years Pulmonary: 2 years Pulmonary/Critical Care: 3 years Rheumatology: 2 years Sports Medicine: 1 year ABIM recognized subspecialties/Length of Training As a somewhat different way to list the above info, the following are ABIM recognized subspecialties where you may be certified as a specialist: http://www.abim.org/cert/policiesssaq.shtm The first number in the parentheses is the total overall months of fellowship required, and the second number is the minimum required time doing clinical rotations during fellowship, as dictated by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). For example, a fellowship with (24/12) would be a 2 year fellowship with a minimum of 1 year of clinical rotations during the fellowship. The rest of the time is spent at the program's discretion: some fellows will do more clinical rotations as electives, while others will spend that time doing research in their subspecialty field. (minimum months/clinical months required) Cardiovascular Disease (36/24) Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism (24/12) Gastroenterology (36/18) Hematology (24/12) Infectious Disease (24/12) Medical Oncology (24/12) Nephrology (24/12) Pulmonary Disease (24/12) Rheumatology (24/12) There are three dual certification programs: Hematology & Medical Oncology (36/18) Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine (36/18) Rheumatology & Allergy and Immunology (36/12 rhem & 18 allergy/immu) There are added qualification programs: Adolescent Medicine (24/) Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (12/12, requires cardiovascular disease certification) Critical Care (3 pathways, see http://www.abim.org/cert/policies_aqccm.shtm) Geriatric Medicine (12/12) Interventional Cardiology (12/12, requires cardivascular disease certification) Sports Medicine (12/) Transplant Hepatology (12/12, requires gastroenterology certification) Which subspecialties are more competitive to get into then others? Right now, most people agree with the following order of competitiveness: Most Competitive: Cardiology Gastroenterology Allergy and Immunology Moderately Competitive: Pulmonary Nephrology Hematology/Oncology Mildly Competitive: Infectious Diseases Endocrinology Rheumatology Geriatric Medicine Do you think that those fields will always be competitive? Its important to realize that levels of competitiveness can rapidly change and what may be competitive now may not be in 5 years due to changes in medical technology, changes in the management of patients, reimbursement, or changes in the patient population. As you can see, with so many different variables, predicting which specialists will be needed and which specialty is in surplus is an inexact science at best. A classic example of this is gastroenterology. During the mid-1990s, it was widely believed that there was a major surplus of all internal medicine subspecialists and there was a drive to train more primary care physicians. Gastroenterology was particularly affected as many of the experts foresaw a large surplus of gastroenterologists and they believed that there were many more gastroenterology doctors then gastroenterology procedures that needed to be done. As a result, gastroenterology fellowships became very non-competitive. By the year 2000, the managed care revolution was on the back-swing, and new recommendations were being put out for things like screening colonoscopies, it was recognized that there was not an oversupply of gastroenterologists but rather a shortage of them. As a result, their reimbursement rates rose, and the field became more competitive as many more US graduates realized that their procedures were enjoyable to do, their patients were not all that sick, and they would be compensated well for their work. I point to that story because many medical students choose their specialties based on salaries, when in fact, by the time that they complete their training, the salary of their chosen specialty today may be drastically different then the salary of the specialist of the future. An example of a specialty in flux today in hematology oncology, with the decision of the government to stop reimbursing oncologists as much as they have been for chemotherapeutic agents that by some estimates have been accounting for one half to two thirds of many oncologists salaries. I am certain that this will have the effect of dissuading many people from pursuing oncology, but I would just remind those people of what happened to gastroenterology and just state that it simply is not possible to predict the future. The take home message is to find a specialty that you enjoy and go for it, irrespective of whether its very competitive, or reimbursed very well today. If you truly enjoy what you do and the patients that you interact with, none of it will matter.